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TC 101 Exam
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
10/03/2012

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Module using communication
Definition

Source Message Channel Receiver 

Term

Maintaining Social Order

Definition
Hegenomy/Status Quo
Term
First Amendment Basics
Definition

Telling the truth isn't libel

Inspired by the Revolutionary Era

*against England*

Term
Asynchronus/Synchronus Communication
Definition

A= Immediate, no delay

S= Delay

Textbook, Conversation (A)

Facebook, Text, Tweet (S)

Term

When everything's put together

Online news

Smartphones

Definition
Convergance 
Term
Small costs after big investments
Definition
Marginal Costs
Term
When 1 company dominates a whole market vs. When 2+ companies do
Definition
Monopoly vs. Ologopoly
Term
The printing press was developed in...
Definition
Asia
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Brought the printing press to Europe, allowed it to be widespread
Definition
Term

When printing Press came to America

 

Only came to the high class

only printed Almanacs, Pamphlets, and Religious Articles

Definition
Revolutionary Era
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More people are reading…transformation of people and ideas…more demand
Definition
Penny Press
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 Let people send their own mail.... it became cheaper to send mail (you could get newspapers/magazines from anywhere in the country)
Definition
Postal Act
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Report the Truth only
Definition
Social Mobility Model
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Who created Yellow Journalism?
Definition
William Randolph Hearst
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Who endorsed the Social Responsibilty Model?
Definition
Joseph Pulitzer
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What do Yellow Journalists do?
Definition
They sensionlize and exaggerate
Term
Muckrakers do what?
Definition

Sensationalize the serious stuff. Investigative reporting

 

Started by Ida Tarbell

Term
Sends information over wires
Definition
Morse Code
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The Wireless Telegraph was invented by
Definition
Marconi
Term
Who did the demonstration of wireless energy?
Definition
Telsa
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Who made the vacuum tube?

Definition
De Forest
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What is the vacuum tube?
Definition
amplification tool to let us send messages farther
Term
Edison made the...
Definition
Phonograph and the WAX thing
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The Victrola was better than the WAX because it
Definition
Allowed people to play music in their home, also sounded better
Term
Records were better because..
Definition
they lasted longer and were flat
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What about the Titanic?
Definition
It was sinking, sent out distress beacon, no one was there to answer it
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Radio Act of 1912
Definition
Made it illegal to not man and answer potential disaster calls
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Radio Act of 1927
Definition
Established Electromegnetic Spectrum, patented radio
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Cultural Impacts of radio? (4)
Definition
  • Everyone is listening to the same thing
  • The president can now speak to the people
  • Music in people's homes
  • Advertising
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What is payola?
Definition
DJs being paid the play certain songs
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Muybridge & Standford
Definition
Made the first moving pictures... bet on the ability of a horse to "fly"
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Thomas Edison
Definition
Porduced Cameras and added sound to moving pictures, but nobody used it
Term
Something that happens in the actual world
Definition
Actualities
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Something that is short (like a short film)
Definition
Flickers
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A variety show
Definition
Vaudville
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Major 5: Would contact starts and tell them that they were not allowed to appear in any other studios' movies
Definition
Studio Systems
Term
Technology Disputes
Definition
Patent disputes, monopoly on camera uses. Filmmakers movied to California ... it had sunlight and freedom from the companies
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A Film with sound (The first was Jazz Singer in 1927)
Definition
Talkies
Term
Problems with Talkies?
Definition

The Projector was too loud

Feedback with the microphone

Audio unsychronized

Actors couldn't adjust

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IN ORDER to protect the children... they rated movies. Eventually became the MPAA
Definition
Hays Office
Term
Everyone was owning everything..This allows you to control all aspects
Definition
Vertical Integration
Term
The Paramount Decision said you could only own ___ of the ___ things. (What were they?)
Definition

2   3

Studio

District

Movie Theatres

Term
The Black Scare
Definition

Communists in Hollywood!

Black List said: DO NOT interact with these people

Term
TV and its effects: it ______
Definition
Improved the Quality of Movies
Term
Someone with a high need for cognition is someone who 
Definition

likes to think

 

They would be less easily conviced by advertisements

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News media tells you what to _________
Definition

Think about

Agenda Setting

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The news story _____ affects what you _______ or _______.
Definition

Framing

Think     Feel 

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People with ________ or _______ opinions are afraid to speak out... (because?)
Definition

Spiral of Silence

unpopular    minority  

because of fear of not belonging

Term
Emotional Effects
Definition

People pay more attention to dangerous and violent things

 

VISUAL vs. NONVISUAL

NIXON vs. KENNEDY

Term
The ability to access messages across a variety of contexts
Definition
Media Literacy
Term

_______: Beging _____ with messages

 

related to culture/social norms and knowledge

Definition

Access

engaging

Term

_________: Have the interpretive skills to _________/________

 

Also related to social knowledge

Definition

Analyze

understand/decode 

Term
_______ Use standards to asses the quality of it
Definition
Evaluate
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_________: Generate content using unique skills
Definition
Create
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Gillmor's 4 Principles
Definition

Be skeptical: Use your trust meter

Go outside of your comfort zone

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Do Media Tabloids Follow the Golden Rule?
Definition
No. They invade people's privacy
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Golden Mean: Moral Virtue lies in the ________
Definition
middle
Term
Ignore differences of class and race
Definition
Veil of Ignorance
Term
Cateograical Impreative is
Definition
Universal... always do fact checking. As much as possible
Term
Principle of Utility: Maximize _________
Definition
Happiness
Term
Pragmatic ethics: 
Definition
Do the ends justify the means?

If censorship okay if it stops ariot? 
Term
Potter's Box: is a _________
Definition
Process (know the steps)
Term
What was a freeze on networks in order to establish standards
Definition
1948 Freeze. It also had unexpected effects: established the big 3 networks
Term

Analog vs. Digital

What happened?

Definition
Quality changed (improved)
Term

HD Types

Whats best?
What does I AND P stand for?
What's better? 

Definition

1080

Interlaced

Progressive

P is

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Cable was invented because...
Definition
Small towns couldn't get signal - so another antenna patched the signal and are sent through cables to small towns
Term
Cable MUST carry
Definition
local programs by cable and satellite providers
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